Hyloxalus infraguttatus (Boulenger, 1898)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Hyloxalinae > Genus: Hyloxalus > Species: Hyloxalus infraguttatus

Phyllobates infraguttatus Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 118. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.14.7-8 (originally 1898.4.28.96-97) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.14.7 designated lectotype by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 33. Type locality: "Chimbo"; also noted in the original publication as "Puente del Chimbo, the railway terminus about 70 miles from Guayaquil, at an elevation of about 1000 feet", Provincia Chimborazo, Ecuador. See comment regarding type locality by Rivero and Almendáriz C., 1992 "1991", Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 16: 116.

Colostethus infraguttatusEdwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Hyloxalus infraguttatusGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.

English Names

Chimbo Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Pacific slopes of Ecuador Andes, 70–1500 m elevation, in the provinces of Manabí, Guayas, Bolivar, Los Ríos, Azuay, and El Oro; north to 4 km northwest of Junín, Nariño, Colombia, and likely south to extreme northwestern Peru (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Likely/Controversially Present: Peru

Comment

See account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 33. Kaplan, 1997, J. Herpetol., 31: 373. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 110, provided distributional data for Ecuador. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus infraguttatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 613. Sánchez, 2013, Zootaxa, 3637: 586, reported the species from Barbacoas municipality, Nariño, Colombia. Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 37, mapped the species as extending into extreme northwestern Peru but the associated supplemental data are confusing. 

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